The Never-Ending Tight Rope that is Pacing- Mental Health and Chronic Illness- A Balance

A polaroid style photo of Amber smiling on the beach is captioned with the text " The Never-Ending Tight Rope that is Pacing- Mental Health and Chronic Illness- A Balance". It is on a blue background with purple shapes.

By Amber Daw Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3i7twTbDNj4kbnzwmrrRIl?si=2c94602ed429413a This month has had ME and Fibromyalgia Awareness Weeks, as well as Mental Health Awareness Week. It’s been a week centred around raising awareness, starting conversations and sharing experiences with all of these things, considering their complexity and the ways that they infiltrate every aspect of the lives of …

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Future Redefined

Image Description: The image is an infographic. The background is a light blue. At the top there is the text “A LUNA project series on the intersection of physical health and mental health”and the LUNA logo. There are then three polaroid style infographics, the two on the right and left have images of the sea within them and are kind of cut off. The one in the centre has two pictures of Amber. In the one to the left she is wearing her RAF uniform, in the second she is sat smiling in her wheelchair, with the text underneath reading “My Future Redefined, by Amber)”. End of Description.

Updated: Jan 19, 2022 By Amber Daw Listen to this here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1IOw6zsvjGvWk7Y7lNA7ZF?si=f82bbefff24b4145 If you think back to when you were younger I’m sure you can recall countless relatives asking you “what do you want to be when you grow up?”. For the most part they’d always agree with whatever you said, no matter how silly …

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Being Part Time in Education

The image is an infographic with colourful blue and green rectangles in the background. In the foreground there is a photo of Amber, sat cross legged wearing a red top that says #millionsmissing. Below is the writing (in white) that says “Being part time in education, by Amber Carey-Daw” In the top righthand corner is the LUNA project logo and and the text (in black) “A LUNA project series on Education”. End of description. 

Updated: Jan 19, 2022 By Amber Carey-Daw Listen to this blog here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Ez99kUEFgKrZa6bhS5XqD?si=9eae5614c6844fc3 I originally became a part time student in April 2018, just three weeks before the start of my GCSE exams. It wasn’t an easy decision to make, as many told me it would be detrimental to my exam results, something that as …

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